Ecclesiastes 7:24
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
In Context
23All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
Cross References
Job 11:7Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Job 28:23God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.
Psalms 36:6Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.
Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
1 Timothy 6:16Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:24-29
The Evil of Sin. 23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. 24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? 25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by… Read the whole commentary →